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One of the children of Holocaust survivors, Mr. Rizowy, admonishes Polish fathers (not German fathers!) for not telling their children about the genocide of the Jews, which “our people permitted.” If Poles “permitted” the murder of the Jews, they also “permitted” the slaughter of 3 million Christian Poles and other German atrocities, such as the forcible removal of 200,000 Polish children from their families, who were taken to Germany never to return.
When another survivors’ son, Mr. Jelen, quoted in the same article, wonders about what a Pole of his parents’ generation may have been doing during the War, the answers are rather obvious. He may have been fighting the Germans on the streets of Warsaw with a bottle of gasoline, or may have been starving as a prisoner of a concentration camp, in a barrack a few meters away from the gas chambers where Jews were being killed.
Polish American Congress
